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gandolf989
I was talking to a friend about this last night and he pointed out the this computer also comes pre-bundled with PFSense.
pfsense is an operating system based off BSD. You either install it inside the machine itself, or inside a virtual machine running inside the machine. And a cheap Celeron is very unlikely to support hardware VM.
So you'd be locking yourself in a weird proprietary operating system. If that works for you, great. If it doesn't, you may be painting yourself into a corner.
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Hence, it is probably designed to perform this task.
It's an internet appliance with four ethernet ports - naturally it's designed for networking. Which doesn't mean it's easier to use.
If you don't like the preloaded loadout, you may have a hard time installing anything else. If you drive that bargain-basement SSD to an early grave with frequent logging writes, it may not be replaceable. If you back yourself into a corner and need to boot a rescue disk, I hope you can find a compatible one.